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    2. Frighteningly Ambitious Startup Ideas

      Explore Paul Graham (May 11 2012) Productivity

      ...many different ways to learn different things, and some may look quite different from universities. Y Combinator itself is arguably one of them. Learning is such a big problem that changing the way people do it w...... separate from it. There may even need to be replacements for campus social life (and oddly enough, YC even has aspects of that). You could replace high schools too, but there you face ... (Read Full Article)

      Mentions:   Jessica Livingston   Apple   Trevor Blackwell

    3. How to Choose a Startup Incubator

      Explore ReadWriteWeb (Apr 16 2012)

      How to Choose a Startup Incubator ... don't just waltz into Harvard Business School - and you don't just pull up a chair at TechStars or Y Combinator. (In fact, getting a seat at a superior incubator is three times harder than getting into Harvard B... (Read Full Article)

      Mentions:   Harvard Business School   Andreessen Horowitz   Stanford

    4. Everything You Ever Wanted To Know About Convertible Note Seed Financings (But Were Afraid To Ask)

      Explore TechCrunch (Apr 8 2012)

      ...hy Can’t a Startup Issue Shares of Common Stock to Investors? It can. In fact, many incubators like Y Combinator and TechStars are issued shares of common stock for their initial investment (usually about $20,000... (Read Full Article)

      Mentions:   Fred Wilson   Jason Calacanis   Mark Suster

    5. 5 Things I Learned About Entrepreneurship From Y Combinator's Paul Graham

      Explore FastCompany.com (Mar 23 2012)

      ...st time I met PG was in the summer of 2010, when my cofounder and I were selected to participate in Y Combinator (YC), the startup accelerator program PG founded that helped to create many successful companies, inclu... (Read Full Article)

      Mentions:   Harvard   Graduate School of Business   Stanford

    6. Lessons Learned By A Solo Entrepreneur – with Rob Walling

      Explore mixergy.com (Mar 20 2012)

      Lessons Learned By A Solo Entrepreneur – with Rob Walling ...Andrew: That didn’t give me the kind of freedom that an entrepreneurship does. Next, you applied to Y Combinator, you got turned down. Are you holding a grudge against Paul Graham, the guy who you read about for ... (Read Full Article)

      Mentions:   AOL   Seth Godin   New York

    7. 3 Tips for Landing a Job at an Awesome Startup

      Explore feefighters.com (Mar 19 2012) Marketing

      3 Tips for Landing a Job at an Awesome Startup ...and find a startup. 2. Leverage the startup accelerators. In the past 5 years startup accelerators (Y Combinator, TechStars, Excelerate Labs, etc) have popped up in most of the major cities in the United States. ... (Read Full Article)

      Mentions:   TechStars   Y-Combinator   Google Adwords

    8. The startup skill set

      Explore swombat.com on startups (Jan 23 2012)

      The startup skill set ...ign, and even engineering (and, perhaps, in the future, biotechnology! "Click here to download this YC-funded DNA patch and grow a third arm!"). But all of those stem from an impulse to "make things", f... (Read Full Article)

      Mentions:   Eric Ries   Y-Combinator

    9. The Big List: The Best and Worst Startup Stuff In 2011

      Explore On Startups by Dharmesh Shah (Jan 2 2012)

      The Big List: The Best and Worst Startup Stuff In 2011 ...ator Financial Innovation: This feels like ancient history now (it happened in January 2011), but Y-Combinator, the big Daddy of them all, wasn't resting on its laurels when it announced that Yuri Milner and SV......esting on its laurels when it announced that Yuri Milner and SV Angel were combining to offer every YC company a $150k uncapped, no-discount convertible note. Angels and VCs gasped, but it was great ... (Read Full Article)

      Mentions:   Joel Spolsky   Jason Calacanis   Mark Suster

    10. Startup Fundraising is a Time Sink

      Explore paulstamatiou.com (Dec 28 2011)

      Startup Fundraising is a Time Sink ... to send push notifications without having to develop their own native mobile apps. It went through Y Combinator's Winter 2010 batch, officially launched in March and had a revamp in September. Check out a great ... (Read Full Article)

      Mentions:   Motorola   Andreessen Horowitz   Startup School

    11. How Dropbox Became The Startup Steve Jobs Wished To Own – with Drew Houston

      Explore mixergy.com (Dec 26 2011)

      How Dropbox Became The Startup Steve Jobs Wished To Own – with Drew Houston ...’m really good friends with this guy, Adam Smith, who started a company called Zotney. And they did Y Combinator. And I was actually literally camped out in their living room while they were doing that. And so Ch... (Read Full Article)

      Mentions:   Jessica Livingston   Eric Reis   Boston

    12. Learn From Proven Entrepreneurs

      Explore mixergy.com (Dec 19 2011)

      Learn From Proven Entrepreneurs ...lling us that they want what we want to give them, so that helped. It was a frenzy to fill out our [YC] application, we ended up doing it all in the middle of the night. My girlfriend at the time was vi......ople who could potentially give you feedback, a lot of them were giving you feedback, you applied a Y Combinator you get accepted to Y Combinator. What ... (Read Full Article)

      Mentions:   San Francisco   Farmville   Pacific

    13. How to Build a Stellar Team at a High-Potential Startup

      Explore Business & Small Business (Dec 6 2011) Recruiting

      How to Build a Stellar Team at a High-Potential Startup ...ds posting in relevant places, like a niche startup board or through an incubator like TechStars or Y Combinator, which will yield more responses from candidates who understand what to expect when signing on with... (Read Full Article)

      Mentions:   University of California   University of Texas   Apple

    14. DON'T start a company...yet

      Explore On Startups by Dharmesh Shah (Nov 21 2011)

      ...artup" in the school water supply, and incubator programs for new graduates abound (e.g. TechStars, Y Combinator, etc.) For those new graduates itching to start a company, I'm giving some very contrarian (and p... (Read Full Article)

      Mentions:   Harvard   TechStars   Y-Combinator

    15. You Should Learn From Their $100K Failure. They Did.

      Explore mixergy.com (Oct 13 2011)

      You Should Learn From Their $100K Failure. They Did. ...ory which is this great early stage accelerator in Austin. Like most of them, they’re modeled after Y Combinator. When we got in we were actually like “This is pretty legitimate. People are going to give us money... (Read Full Article)

      Mentions:   IBM   University of Texas   Apple

    16. Adopt the New Startup Model: Nail It Then Scale It

      Explore Startup Professionals Musings (Sep 19 2011) Marketing

      Adopt the New Startup Model: Nail It Then Scale It ... In my view, savvy “super angel” investors such as Mike Maples, Jr., and leading incubators such as Y Combinator, are already on this one. How far behind is your startup? Marty Zwilling I see more and more ent... (Read Full Article)

      Mentions:   Eric Ries   Steve Blank   Marty Zwilling

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